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Marijuanamerica

Author : Alfred Ryan Nerz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613124708
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Marijuanamerica written by Alfred Ryan Nerz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightfully weird . . . journey that includes crazed pharmacists, a guy named Buddha Cheese, and an interstate road trip with a trunk full of pot.” —A. J. Jacobs, New York Times–bestselling author Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He’s also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America’s long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government, and visiting the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. But his journey took an unexpected turn and he found himself embedded with one of the largest growers and dealers on the West Coast. He quickly transformed into an underworld apprentice—surrounded by pit bulls, exotic drugs, beanbags full of cash, and trunks full of weed. But while struggling to navigate the eccentric characters and rampant paranoia of the black market, he maintained enough equanimity to explore a number of vital questions: Is marijuana hurting or helping us? How is it affecting our lungs, our brains, and our ambitions? Is it truly addictive, and if so, are too many of us dependent on it? Should we legalize it? Does he need to quit? As entertaining as it is illuminating, Marijuanamerica is one man’s attempt to humanize the myriad hot-button topics surrounding the nation’s obsession with weed, while learning something about himself along the way. “These wacky accounts rival T.C. Boyle’s fine novel Budding Prospects in showing the highly misguided paranoia that can be cured—or accentuated—by consumption of the marijuana plant’s sticky blossoms.” —Pasatiempo

Marijuanamerica

Author : Alfred Ryan Nerz
Publisher : Abrams Image
ISBN 13 : 9781419704086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Marijuanamerica written by Alfred Ryan Nerz and published by Abrams Image. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He's also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America's long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government, and visiting the world's largest medical marijuana dispensary. But after connecting with a mysterious friend of a friend, his journey took an unexpected turn and he found himself embedded with one of the largest growers and dealers on the West Coast. He quickly transformed from respectable journalist into an underworld apprentice--surrounded by pit bulls, exotic drugs, beanbags full of cash, and trunks full of weed. But while struggling to navigate the eccentric characters and rampant paranoia of the black market, he maintained enough equanimity to explore a number of vital questions: Is marijuana hurting or helping us? How is it affecting our lungs, our brains, and our ambitions? Is it truly addictive, and if so, are too many of us dependent on it? Should we legalize it? Does he need to quit? As entertaining as it is illuminating, Marijuanamerica is one man's attempt to humanize the myriad hot-button topics surrounding the nation's worst-kept secret--our obsession with weed--while learning something about himself along the way.

Master Gardener's Medical Cannabis Secrets

Author : Bodhi Moon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478718116
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Master Gardener's Medical Cannabis Secrets written by Bodhi Moon and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEARN TO GROW AN OUTDOOR 5 POUND MINIMUM MEDICAL MARIJUANA PLANT CONSISTENTLY! HOW TO INCREASE YIELDS, IMPROVE QUALITY, AND SAVE MONEY EVERY CYCLE ON YOUR INDOOR AND OUTDOOR! This is not a Beginners grow manual! It is designed for the master gardener who wants to refine his or her techniques and constantly improve. Learn to grow Nor-Cal style and become your own expert. Relevant to both Indoor and Outdoor gardens, and all Medical growers, this book will take you to the next level!

Man Versus Ball

Author : Jon Hart
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344151
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Man Versus Ball written by Jon Hart and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Hart is not a professional athlete. His one major sports victory is a world championship in roller basketball, which is basketball on in-line skates. More than ten years ago, he started pursuing his own bucket list and embarked on a hilarious and insightful journey into the furthest reaches of the sports world.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits

Author : Mark Binelli
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627795367
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits written by Mark Binelli and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Binelli turns his sharp, forceful prose to fiction, in an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, a bluesman with one hit and a string of inflammatory guises He came on stage in a coffin, carried by pallbearers, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night. Onstage he wore a cape, clamped a bone to his nose, and carried a staff topped with a human skull. Offstage, he insisted he'd been raised by a tribe of Blackfoot Indians, that he'd joined the army at fourteen, that he'd defeated the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska, that he'd fathered seventy-five illegitimate children. The R&B wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins only had a single hit, the classic "I Put a Spell On You," and was often written off as a clownish novelty act -- or worse, an offense to his race -- but his myth-making was legendary. In his second novel, Mark Binelli embraces the man and the legend to create a hilarious, tragic, fantastical portrait of this unlikeliest of protagonists. Hawkins saw his life story as a wild picaresque, and Binelli's novel follows suit, tackling the subject in a dazzling collage-like style. At Rolling Stone, Binelli has profiled some of the greatest musicians of our time, and this novel deftly plays with the inordinate focus on "authenticity" in so much music writing about African-Americans. An entire novel built around a musician as deliberately inauthentic as Screamin' Jay Hawkins thus becomes a sort of subversive act, as well as an extremely funny and surprisingly moving one.

Eat This Book

Author : Ryan Nerz
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466802324
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Eat This Book written by Ryan Nerz and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Ryan Nerz spent a year penetrating the highest echelons of international competitive eating and Eat This Book is the fascinating and gut-bustingly hilarious account of his journey. Nerz gives us all the facts about the history of the IFOCE (Independent Federation of Competitive Eating)--from the story of a clever Nathan's promotion that began in 1916 on the corner of Surf and Stillwell in Coney Island to the intricacies of individual international competitions, the controversial Belt of Fat Theory and the corporate wars to control this exploding sport. He keeps the reader turning the pages as we are swept up in the lives of Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, "Cookie" Jarvis, "Hungry" Charles Hardy, and many other top gurgitators whose egos and secret agendas, hopes and dreams are revealed in dramatic detail. As Nerz goes on his own quest to become a top gurgitator, we become obsessed with him as he lies awake at night in physical pain from downing dozens of burgers and learning to chug gallons of water to expand his increasingly abused stomach. Sparing no one's appetite, Nerz reveals the training, game-day strategies and after-effects of competition in this delectably shocking banquet of gluttony and glory on the competitive eating circuit.

My Dirty Dumb Eyes

Author : Lisa Hanawalt
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465758
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book My Dirty Dumb Eyes written by Lisa Hanawalt and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharply observant, laugh-out-loud funny comics from The Believer cartoonist and New York Times illustrator My Dirty Dumb Eyes is the highly anticipated debut collection from award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. In a few short years, Hanawalt has made a name for herself: her intricately detailed, absurdly funny comics have appeared in venues as wide and varied as The Hairpin, VanityFair.com, Lucky Peach, Saveur, The New York Times, and The Believer. My Dirty Dumb Eyes intermingles drawings, paintings, single-panel gag jokes, funny lists, and anthropomorphized animals, all in the service of satirical, startlingly observant commentary on pop culture, contemporary society, and human idiosyncrasies. Her wild sense of humor contrasts strikingly with the carefully rendered lines and flawless draftsmanship that are Hanawalt trademarks. Whether she’s revealing the secret lives of celebrity chefs or explaining that what dogs really want is a tennis-ball bride, My Dirty Dumb Eyes will have readers rolling in the aisles, as Hanawalt’s insights into human (and animal) behavior startle and delight time and again.

Behind the Kitchen Door

Author : Saru Jayaraman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467594
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Kitchen Door written by Saru Jayaraman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind the Kitchen Door How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions-discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens-affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables? Saru Jayaraman, who launched the national restaurant workers' organization Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, sets out to answer these questions by following the lives of restaurant workers in New York City, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Detroit, and New Orleans. Blending personal narrative and investigative journalism, Jayaraman shows us that the quality of the food that arrives at our restaurant tables depends not only on the sourcing of the ingredients. Our meals benefit from the attention and skill of the people who chop, grill, sauté, and serve. Behind the Kitchen Door is a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out. Jayaraman focuses on the stories of individuals, like Daniel, who grew up on a farm in Ecuador and sought to improve the conditions for employees at Del Posto; the treatment of workers behind the scenes belied the high-toned Slow Food ethic on display in the front of the house. Increasingly, Americans are choosing to dine at restaurants that offer organic, fair-trade, and free-range ingredients for reasons of both health and ethics. Yet few of these diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. But whether you eat haute cuisine or fast food, the well-being of restaurant workers is a pressing concern, affecting our health and safety, local economies, and the life of our communities. Highlighting the roles of the 10 million people, many immigrants, many people of color, who bring their passion, tenacity, and vision to the American dining experience, Jayaraman sets out a bold agenda to raise the living standards of the nation's second-largest private sector workforce-and ensure that dining out is a positive experience on both sides of the kitchen door.

Drug Lord

Author : Terrence E. Poppa
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459617509
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Drug Lord written by Terrence E. Poppa and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after writing Drug Lord, Terrence Poppa decided the information in his book was more important than ever. In an important interview with the Texas Tribune, Poppa explains that ''the Mexico that I wrote about in the book describes the old order of things: Mexico under the PRI. In that sense, the book was out of date, because how drug trafficking operated under the PRI is completely different than how it works today in a new Mexico, under the democratically transformed Mexico...There has been a decoupling of the highest levels of power from drug trafficking now. It's important for people to understand that, so I had to bring the book up to date.''

Campaigns that Shook the World

Author : Danny Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Campaigns that Shook the World written by Danny Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campaigns that Shook the World examines the most extraordinary PR campaigns from the 1970s to the present day showcasing the impact of PR excellence.

Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!

Author : Mark Binelli
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564784452
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! written by Mark Binelli and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Laurel and Hardy were anarchists? This novel reanimates real-life accused anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, sent to the electric chair in 1927, in the guise of an Italian-American slapstick duo whose waning fame blurs comedy and creative destruction. Ascending from vaudeville to the big screen with brilliantly subtle pie fights (Sacco and Vanzetti Dessert the Cause) and other radically physical comedy.

American Spirit

Author : Dan Kennedy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544032047
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book American Spirit written by Dan Kennedy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A midlife crisis forces forty-something media exec, Matthew Harris on a hectic and hilarious quest to figure out what his life is all about.

Mexico

Author : George W. Grayson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505505
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by George W. Grayson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by Choice Magazine.Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into the United States. Grayson explores how this spiral of violence emerged in Mexico, its impact on the country and its northern neighbor, and the prospects for managing it.Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ruled in Tammany Hall fashion for seventy-nine years before losing the presidency in 2000 to the center-right National Action Party (PAN). Grayson focuses on drug wars, prohibition, corruption, and other antecedents that occurred during the PRI's hegemony. He illuminates the diaspora of drug cartels and their fragmentation, analyzes the emergence of new gangs, sets forth President Felipe Calderi?1/2n's strategy against vicious criminal organizations, and assesses its relative success. Grayson reviews the effect of narcotics-focused issues in U.S.-Mexican relations. He considers the possibility that Mexico may become a failed state, as feared by opinion-leaders, even as it pursues an aggressive but thus far unsuccessful crusade against the importation, processing, and sale of illegal substances.Becoming a failed state involves two dimensions of state power: its scope, or the different functions and goals taken on by governments, and its strength, or the government's ability to plan and execute policies. The Mexican state boasts an extensive scope evidenced by its monopoly over the petroleum industry, its role as the major supplier of electricity, its financing of public education, its numerous retirement and health-care programs, its control of public universities, and its dominance

Marijuana Reform

Author :
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
ISBN 13 : 9781619254367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Marijuana Reform written by and published by H. W. Wilson. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Biography Yearbook H. W. Wilson's Current Biography Yearbook is a full year of the monthly Current Biography magazine in a single hardcover volume. Current Biography has been delivering up-to-date biographies of men and women of contemporary importance since 1940 and is renowned for its unfailing accuracy, insightful selection, and wide scope of influence of its subjects. The Yearbook is an invaluable source for researchers, teachers, students, and librarians. Core Collections: There is nothing quite like Wilson Core Collections. The accumulated expertise of our selectors, and the unquestioned reputation of these collections make them valuable tools for collection development and maintenance, reader's advisory, and support for specific curriculums. Core Collections include complete bibliographic data, subject headings, annotations, grade levels, Dewey classifications, and quotations from select reviews. Core Collection titles include Senior High, Middle Senior High, Middle & Junior High, Children's, Fiction, and Public Library Nonfiction. The 2000s in America: This comprehensive 3-volume, illustrated set centers on the impact of the 2000s in the U.S. and Canada. Long historical overviews combined with short entries document the turbulent decade and its profound and lasting effect on American life and culture, with the needs of students and general readers in mind. Categories range from Art and Architecture to Sports and Popular Culture, and include articles on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the economic downturn, and the impact of technology. This title joins the acclaimed decade series, that begins with The Twenties in America. Book jacket.

Cheaper by the Dozen

Author : Frank B. Gilbreth
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480457078
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cheaper by the Dozen written by Frank B. Gilbreth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling classic: A hilarious memoir of two parents, twelve kids, and “a life of cheerfully controlled chaos” (The New York Times). Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have cranked out twelve kids, and Dad is out to prove that efficiency principles can apply to family as well as the workplace. The heartwarming and comic stories of the jumbo-size Gilbreth clan have delighted generations of readers, and will keep you and yours laughing for years. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors’ estates.

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?

Author : Henry Alford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609417499
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR and "Vanity Fair" contributor Alford asks, what do "good" manners look like in our day and age? Troubled by the absence of good manners in his day-to-day life, Alford embarks on a journey to find out how things might look if people were on their best behavior a tad more often.

Looking Back

Author : Joyce Maynard
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453261281
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Looking Back written by Joyce Maynard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of what it was like to be a teenager in a tumultuous era, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Best of Us. Joyce Maynard was eighteen years old when her 1972 New York Times Magazine cover story catapulted her to national prominence. Published one year later, Looking Back is her remarkable follow-up—part memoir, part cultural history, and part social critique. She wrote about diving under her desk for air-raid practice during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, and catching the first glimpse (on the cover of Life magazine) of a human fetus in utero. Extraordinarily frank, sincere, and opinionated, Maynard seemed unafraid to take on any subject—including herself. But as she reveals in a poignant and candid new foreword, she carefully kept her inner life off the page. She didn’t write about her difficult relationship with her mother, or her father’s alcoholism, or the fact that her best friend at college had struggled with the knowledge that he was gay. And she did not mention the most important part of her life at the time she was writing this book: her relationship with reclusive author J. D. Salinger, who read and corrected every page, even as he condemned her for writing it. In this special anniversary edition, Maynard’s candid introductory reflections on the girl behind the girl who wrote Looking Back lend a new dimension to this iconic analysis of a generation. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joyce Maynard including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.